Career Services Supports Southwest Alumni...
by Bill Cavanaugh

During the month of September, AT&T Wireless, Disney World and the Macon Campus held Career Fairs for Southwest Students and Alumni. Tennessee Valley Authority offered exceptional opportunities for our Engineering Technology graduates. Gate Gourmet, formerly Dobbs International, also scheduled a Career Fair on the Macon campus for September 29.

Two Career Fairs are currently scheduled for October. On Saturday, October 18 at Whitehaven High School from 8:30am-1pm a fair will be sponsored by Representative Roscoe Dickson. Southwest’s Career Services department will be supporting this effort by supervising the computerized resume work center. If anyone in the Whitehaven area needs to update their resume they are more than welcome to attend. Southwest will participate in the Federal Correction Institute Career Fair to be conducted on October 27, from 8am to 2pm (you must be an inmate to participate).

Southwest is planning a Career Fair at the Union campus in November, date to be announced. The Career Services Center on the Macon campus, Farris 2160 and the Union Campus, B-206 offer a full line of employment services for alumni. Please feel free to contact these Centers at your convenience for employment assistance.

ENTIRE SOUTHWEST FAMILY IS INVITED TO OFFICIAL RAISING OF COLLEGE FLAG...

Two ceremonies will be held next month for the official hoisting of the Southwest flag at both main campuses. The new Southwest flag will fly alongside the U.S. flag and the Tennessee flag. Both ceremonies will be held on October 10, before the College Convocation, which is scheduled to begin at 1:30 p.m. The flag, which carries the same look as the College logo, is in red, blue and white with the name of the institution in two lines.

The flag will be raised at 8 a.m., on the Union Avenue campus in front of the Jess Parrish Building at the corner of Union and Myrtle, and at noon on the Macon Cove campus in front of the William W. Farris Building facing interstate 40. Southwest President Nate Essex will officiate, and members of the Department of Public Safety will raise the flags. Patriotic music will be sung. (Scoop Online Vol. 3 No. 39 September 29, 2003)